Louie Gohmert: People will ‘suffer’ and ‘die’ from Obamacare

Both President Barack Obama and Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert have been making rounds in Texas this week, trying to explain their frustration with the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act, but, unsurprisingly, the two elected officials have little else in common.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (AP photo)

Gohmert railed against Obamacare at a luncheon in East Texas this week, where he said it negatively impacts senior citizens and makes their health care costs go up, according to KLTV News.

Gohmert defended the Republican position to try to stall the health care law, in spite of it causing the government shutdown.

“When you know how dramatically people are adversely affected, do you want to let people suffer and potentially die, or do you do everything you can to try to put it off?” Gohmert told the local news channel.

Meanwhile, across the state, Obama was in Dallas calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to expand Medicaid to reform the current health care system, which he said needed more attention than just “all the politics and all the chatter.”

But Obama did admit problems with the implementation of the law, sympathizing with frustrated people on both sides of the aisle who have criticized his administration’s lack of responsibility.

“This is like having a really good product in a store, but the cash registers don’t work, there aren’t enough parking spots, nobody can get through the door,” Obama said.

Perry blasted Obama’s request in a response to his visit, saying that Obamacare itself is the problem, and that the president’s visit to Texas was “a desperate attempt to salvage his ill-conceived and unpopular program from a Titanic fate.”